If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
William ShakespeareAs good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
William ShakespeareI am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
William ShakespeareSay she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
William Shakespeare